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Abram Unicomb as a private, 41 Battalion, France, 1916-1919, interviewed by his son Ivan Unicomb
Sound
Maker: Unicomb, Abram Unicomb, Ivan
Side A: discussion of unit, reinforcements for the Battalion; Battalion bugler and runner, when bugler called on to use bugle; description of shooting down of "Red Baron", Baron Manfred von Richthofen...S01983
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Abram Unicomb as a private 41st Infantry Battalion AIF, France 1916-1918, interviewed by Ivan Unicomb
Sound
Maker: Unicomb, Abram Unicomb, Ivan
Unicomb speaks of his shooting at Captain Baron Manfred von Richthofen (The Red Baron), near Corbie, France, 21 April 1918; aerial combat; the supply of rations and water to troops; some of the weapon...S01982
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Advanced dressing station at Smith's Farm, near Corbie
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts the dressing station of the 6th Australian Field Ambulance in May 1918 amongst farm buildings belonging to the Smith family. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters of the Heidel...ART16250
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Aircraft night lozenge camouflage fabric
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Fragment of linen cut from a German aircraft. One side of the piece is covered with red paint. This paint covering has cracked and is suffering many losses, but extends to the edges of the fragment. ...REL/03749
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Aircraft wing fragments : Sergeant W E Brown, 20 Battalion AIF
Technology
Maker: Fokker
Wing fragments said to have been souvenired from the Fokker Dr.1 Triplane aircraft in which Baron Manfred Von Richthofen was shot down on 21 April 1918. The fragments are made from 2mm timber plank sa...RELAWM09123
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Album related to service of Lieutenant Robert Cecil King
Photograph
An album containing various black and white images relating to the town of Armentieres, bombed buildings, trench infrastructure, military cemetery, St Yves, ruins of Messines, Somme, Villers Bretonneu...P05997
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Anti aircraft gun sight from machine gun used to engage Richthofen : Gunner R Buie, Royal Australian Artillery
Technology
Maker: Buie, Robert
Lewis gun backsight made and used by gunner Robert Buie of the 53rd battery, 5th Australian Divisional Artillery, when he fired at the famous German air ace, Captain Baron Von Richthofen.RELAWM12690B
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Anti aircraft gun sight from machine gun used to engage Richthofen : Gunner R Buie, Royal Australian Artillery
Technology
Maker: Buie, Robert
Anti-aircraft foresight for a Lewis machine gun, made and used by gunner Robert Buie of the 53rd battery, 5th Australian Division Artillery in France. Scratched onto the sight is the inscription: '5...RELAWM12690A
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[Blank]; verso: [Landscape]
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Verso depicts the left hand side page of a sketch of a landscape with railway and road indicated through trees and a village on the right of the image. Purchased with the assistance of the Australi...ART93169.012
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[Blank]; verso: [Smith's side of road and railway]
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts a sketch of a landscape with a village along the horizon line. Purchased with the assistance of the Australian Government through the National Cultural Heritage Account, 2007ART93169.010
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[Blank]; verso: The Somme [View of Corbie]
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Verso depicts the left side of a landscape sketch of the Somme Valley with a view of Corbie. Purchased with the assistance of the Australian Government through the National Cultural Heritage Accoun...ART93169.003
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Bombed cathedral ruins
Art
Interior of ruined church, roof missing, piles of rubble on floor, (possibly interior of Abbey).ART19762
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Brass turnbuckle for wire bracing : Baron Manfred von Richthofen, Geschwader 1, German Air Service
Technology
Maker: Fokker
Brass Turnbuckle 3" long. The central portion is pierced by a through hole, into which a tommy rod would have been fitted to allow the turnbuckle to be tightened.REL/00932
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Brigadier-General James Heane
Art
Maker: Quinn, James Peter
Official war artist James Quinn was instructed to paint the portrait of Brigadier-General James Heane CB(M) CMG DSO as part of an ongoing series of portraits that acknowledged senior military leaders ...ART03345
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British military pamphlets relating to James Murdoch Archer Durrant, 1916-1918
Digitised Collection
Maker: Unknown
British military pamphlets relating to the First World War service of Lieutenant-Colonel James Murdoch Archer Durrant, 1916-1918. This file contains: Pamphlet titled 'General Instructions for the O...AWM2018.785.74
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Buckle and strap from overalls : Baron Manfred von Richthofen, Geschwader 1, German Air Service
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Two part leather strap and buckle which have been cut from a garment. One section has a natural leather tongue with eight adjustment holes, while the other, also of natural leather, ends in a black pa...RELAWM15900
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Church, Corbie
Art
Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Watercolour sketch depicting the war damaged ruins of the church at Corbie on the Western Front with fallen trees in the left foreground and the church in the right of the image. McCubbin was in Corbi...ART03069
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Compass from Fokker Dr I : Baron Manfred von Richthofen, Geschwader 1, German Air Service
Technology
Maker: Carl Bamberg
A Carl Bamberg manufactured compass removed from Rittmeister Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen's Fokker Dr1 triplane on 21 April 1918 immediately after he was shot down. The compass is pivot mo...RELAWM00706
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Control column : Baron M von Richthofen, Geschwader 1, German Air Service
Technology
Control column from a Fokker Dr I aircraft, serial No 425/17. The head of the control column has been twisted / distorted to the right about forty-five degrees and slightly upward. It has at least two...RELAWM00704
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Corbie
Art
Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Corbie is situated near the Somme battlefield and was the stage for the third battle for the Somme. The painting shows a panoramic view of this area that includes a church in the far left, trees in th...ART11425
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Corbie Abbey
Art
Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Sketch depicting the war damage ruins of Corbie Abbey and surrounding buildings. Corbie is situated near the Somme battlefield and was the stage for the third battle of the Somme. Louis McCubbin enlis...ART03072
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Corbie Abbey
Art
Maker: Power, H Septimus
Depicts the ruins of Corbie Abbey church and the village buildings of Corbie, with rubble everywhere. Corbie village is on the Somme and was close to the fighting, with AIF soldiers passing through so...ART03648
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Corbie Abbey showing effects of shellfire
Art
Between April and May 1918, the town of Corbie was heavily shelled by frequent intervals and the church was badly damaged by many direct hits. A Brigade Headquarters and reserve troops were billeted i...ART03370
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Corbie Church
Art
Maker: Smythe, Percy Ellesmere
Depicts the damaged church and surrounding buildings at Corbie, near Amiens , in northern France. During 1918, Australian forces were engaged in the defence of the Amiens area and Brigade Headquarters...ART92727
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Corbie Church
Art
Maker: Longstaff, Will
Depicts the Corbie Church with the ruins of the village of Corbie around it. Will Longstaff was born in Ballarat, Victoria in 1879. From 1900 to 1901, he served with the South African Light Horse in t...ART03017
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Corbie, France. c. 1918. A large artillery gun mounted on a rail car. Photograph taken by a ...
Photograph
Corbie, France. c. 1918. A large artillery gun mounted on a rail car. Photograph taken by a member of the 1st Australian Army Divisional Train.H03347
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CORBIE, FRANCE. 1917. FOUR PRIVATES OF THE 30TH BATTALION "JUST AFTER COMPLETING A FIFTEEN MILE ...
Photograph
CORBIE, FRANCE. 1917. FOUR PRIVATES OF THE 30TH BATTALION "JUST AFTER COMPLETING A FIFTEEN MILE ROUTE MARCH". LEFT TO RIGHT: STANDING: EDWARD (TED) THOMAS SLOAN (DIED OF WOUNDS 1918-06-20), FRED SPENC...P01252.005
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Corbie from above, 12th Infantry Brigade HQ
Art
Depicts a view of the landscape, river and buildings near Corbie, France, during the First World War. George Courtney Benson (1886-1960) was a painter and muralist. He studied at the National Gallery ...ART03596
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Corbie, morning of August 8th 1918
Art
Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
A plane filies over the village of Corbie on the Western Front. Clouds of smoke billow from explosions or shell Louis McCubbin enlisted with the 14th Battalion AIF in 1916, serving in France from No...ART03121
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Diary and memoir by John Hampden Barton
Digitised Collection
Maker: Barton, John Hampden Barton, John Hampden
Binder relating to the First World War service of Lieutenant John (Jack) Hampden Barton, 54th Battalion. This binder contains a typed diary and memoir titled 'One Year With the Platoon' by J.H. Barton...AWM2018.19.33
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Diary of Harold William Grimwade, 1918-1919
Digitised Collection
Maker: Grimwade, Harold William
Diary relating to the First World War service of Brigadier General Harold William Grimwade, 3rd Division Artillery. This diary written between 1 January 1918 and 1 January 1919 cover: his leave in Jan...AWM2018.19.72
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Diary of John Henry Llewellyn Turnbull, 1918
Digitised Collection
Maker: Turnbull, John Henry Llewellyn
Diary relating to the First World War service of 1295 Driver John Henry Llewellyn Turnbull, 5th Divisional Ammunition Column. This is the fifth of six detailed diaries transcribed by Turnbull after th...RCDIG0001110
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Engineers throwing pontoon bridge across the Somme near Corbie
Art
Watercolour sketch depicting engineers erecting a pontoon bridge across the River Somme near the village of Corbie. James Fraser Scott's (1877- 1932) official war art is particularly informative, both...ART03389
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From behind Corbie
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts a view of the Somme Valley from behind Corbie, looking towards Villers-Bretonneux. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters of the Heidelberg School in Melbourne in the late nine...ART03494
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German observation balloon shot down near Corbie
Art
Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Watercolour sketch depicting a German observation balloon being shot down near the village of Corbie. Corbie is situated near the Somme battlefield and was the stage for the third battle for the Somme...ART03076
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Images from album of Robert Cecil King
Photograph
"Lieut J.A.G. Pockley's grave. Hangard". An album containing various black and white images relating to the town of Armentieres, bombed buildings, trench infrastructure, military cemetery, St Yves, ru...P05997.076
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Images from album of Robert Cecil King
Photograph
"Wounded after battle on/ the Menin Rd waiting/ ambulance transport - 20.9.17". An album containing various black and white images relating to the town of Armentieres, bombed buildings, trench infrast...P05997.106
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Images from album of Robert Cecil King
Photograph
"Shell bursting/ amidst the/ ruins of YPRES. 4.9.17." An album containing various black and white images relating to the town of Armentieres, bombed buildings, trench infrastructure, military cemetery...P05997.120
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Images from album of Robert Cecil King
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"Australians studying the large/ contour map which was/ made for the troops to give/ them a good knowledge/ of the country around/ MESSINES etc over which they/ had to attack./ Pellet Point - Nieppe/ ...P05997.121
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Images from album of Robert Cecil King
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"Le Bizet Sector. Despaire Farm." An album containing various black and white images relating to the town of Armentieres, bombed buildings, trench infrastructure, military cemetery, St Yves, ruins of ...P05997.041
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Images from album of Robert Cecil King
Photograph
"First Bn O.P in Villers-Bretonneux. [in top window]". An album containing various black and white images relating to the town of Armentieres, bombed buildings, trench infrastructure, military cemeter...P05997.081
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Images from album of Robert Cecil King
Photograph
"A Bde H/Q riding through wreckage in Rue de Peronne in Bapaume. 19.3.17." An album containing various black and white images relating to the town of Armentieres, bombed buildings, trench infrastructu...P05997.113
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Images from album of Robert Cecil King
Photograph
"SS Marathon leaving Sydney 4.5.1916" An album containing various black and white images relating to the town of Armentieres, bombed buildings, trench infrastructure, military cemetery, St Yves, ruins...P05997.122
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Images from album of Robert Cecil King
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
"Battle of Messines - German Shell bursting behind Hill 63. 7.6.1917". An album containing various black and white images relating to the town of Armentieres, bombed buildings, trench infrastructure, ...P05997.112
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Images from album of Robert Cecil King
Photograph
"Communication trench between Dead Horse Corner and St Yves H/Q". An album containing various black and white images relating to the town of Armentieres, bombed buildings, trench infrastructure, milit...P05997.049
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Images from album of Robert Cecil King
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"A.F.C preparing for a/ Bombing stunt." An album containing various black and white images relating to the town of Armentieres, bombed buildings, trench infrastructure, military cemetery, St Yves, rui...P05997.115
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Images from album of Robert Cecil King
Photograph
"Red Chateau". An album containing various black and white images relating to the town of Armentieres, bombed buildings, trench infrastructure, military cemetery, St Yves, ruins of Messines, Somme, Vi...P05997.102
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Images from album of Robert Cecil King
Photograph
"Notre Dame Cathedral from W.". An album containing various black and white images relating to the town of Armentieres, bombed buildings, trench infrastructure, military cemetery, St Yves, ruins of Me...P05997.019
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Images from album of Robert Cecil King
Photograph
"No Mans Land and Hun wire opposite Battalion's front - Battle of Messines". An album containing various black and white images relating to the town of Armentieres, bombed buildings, trench infrastruc...P05997.059
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Images from album of Robert Cecil King
Photograph
"Railway Bridge - east of Station". An album containing various black and white images relating to the town of Armentieres, bombed buildings, trench infrastructure, military cemetery, St Yves, ruins o...P05997.093